Today, Akmola regional perinatal center of Kokshetau city was transferred medical equipment for nursing preterm infants. Equipment costing nearly 11.5 million tenge purchased with funds collected during the Charity Bike Ride “Rixos Borovoe-2013”, which took place on 24^th of August 2013. Organizers of the action – are Rixos Borovoe Hotel and the "AYALA" charity foundation. Bike ride headed Olympic champion Alexander Vinokurov, the participants were about 150 top managers of large local and foreign companies and government institutions. The amount needed for the purchasing of equipment collected through individual contributions of participants of the bike ride, corporate contributions of “Beeline Kazakhstan” company, “Verny Capital” group, Forte Bank, Kassa Nova Bank, as well as holding a charity auction, items for which were presented by Rixos Borovoe hotel and Alexander Vinokurov - his personal bike, sportswear suits etc. Organizers of the charity bike ride express their sincere gratitude to the leaders of «Sadu», «Technodim», «White and case», «Raiymbek», «Green Apple», «Atyrau Refinery», «Astana Motors», "Kit-assessment" LLP companies, as well as to Bulat Utemuratov, thanks to donations from which it was possible to collect the full amount needed to purchase a complete set of equipment.

Today, the «Rixos Borovoe» hotel and the "AYALA" foundation transfer to children resuscitation department of Akmola regional perinatal center CPAP breathing apparatus, syringe and infusion dosing, mobile X-ray apparatus, and non-invasive bilirubin analyzers. Total cost of equipment is 11,370,000 tenge.

Regional Perinatal Center in Kokshetau and resuscitation department has been long needed modern equipment. Every year there are more than 4000 childbirths. Preterm infants comprise about 80% of all infant deaths. Infant mortality is 1.5%, and a significant proportion of the cause of death is respiratory distress syndrome.  New medical equipment will help to nurse premature and debilitated children, and thereby increase the survival rate of preterm infants.

This action became a part of the "Breathe, baby" project of the "AYALA" charity foundation, which lasts for the fifth year and is nearing to its completion. The project is implemented jointly with the Ministry and the regional health department. Vital medical equipment for newborn care helped health workers reduce the infant mortality rate in the whole country by 17%. This fact was noted by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Chief physician of the Akmola regional perinatal center Janat Sartaevich Musin said: “I have known about the “Breathe, baby” project. My colleagues, the chief doctors of perinatal centers, heads of departments of pediatric resuscitation highlight the fact that the equipment they received from the "AYALA" foundation really helps to reduce infant mortality and allows to provide high-tech help for children, who born prematurely. We are very pleased that help of the "AYALA" foundation came in Kokshetau. It is important that it is actually help of dozens of people involved in fundraising within framework of the charity race organized by the Rixos Borovoe hotel”.  

"We want to make charitable bicycle races one of the hotel's business cards. Such events attract an additional stream of tourists and will contribute to the popularization of environmentally friendly domestic tourism in Kazakhstan, as well as increase the inflow of foreign tourists. In addition, the "Breathe, baby" project, to which we are helping this year, has great social meaning for our region", - said Ergin SARP, operational manager of the Rixos Borovoe hotel.

"I am very pleased that this year the "AYALA" foundation almost completed the "Breathe, baby" project. We started this project in the 2009 and implemented in the Almaty city. And since 2011 the project became republican. And if at the beginning of this project the cities in which we worked, could be counted on the fingers of one hand, but now the situation is reversed. Equipment has already been purchased for the last three perinatal centers in Uralsk, Aktau and Turkestan. I would like to thank all of our partners, in particular, the Rixos Borovoe hotel, who managed to organize an event, so that the necessary funds have been collected in one day", - said vice-president of the "AYALA" charity foundation Zhangeldy SARSENOV.

Neonatologists were especially pleased to receive the gift, which are well aware of the importance of high technology in helping their tiny patients. Chief freelance neonatologist of the Akmola region Natalia TSYPLAKOVA, who works in RPC of Kokshetau for 25 years, in a warm word of thanks notice that for all 25 years of her work, such an event occurs for the first time. “Our employees until the last minute did not believe that the equipment will come, but the "AYALA" foundation fulfilled its obligations by 100%”. 

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